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Online
FBI Chief Is As Internet Savvy As Your Grandparents
10:20AM Sean Fallon | FBI Director Robert Mueller revealed himself as an internet newbie yesterday when he admitted to nearly being duped by an email phishing scam. More »
Phones
How Does A Blind Teenage “Swatter” Get 11 Years In Jail?
3:00PM Dan Nosowitz | Matt Weigman, “a fat, lonely blind kid”, received an 11-year jail sentence at age 19 for using the 911 phone service to harass and attack his enemies (including the FBI!). But how does a kid come to such a fate? More »
Random Stuff
FBI Agents Accused of Using Agency Equipment to Spy On A Dressing Room
2:45PM Dan Nosowitz | In a surprising display of perviness, two agents in West Virginia are accused of aiming their surveillance cameras at a dressing room where teenage girls tried on prom dresses for a charity function. More »
Weapons
The Fancy Security Gear the FBI Busted Out for the Inauguration
3:30AM Adam Frucci | An event like the inauguration is a great excuse for the FBI to roll out all of its super-expensive security gear, like a truck you can explode a live bomb in without hurting anyone. More »
Gadgets
CIA Inflatable Sex Doll Experiment: “Blow Up” Gets New Meaning
2:30PM Wilson Rothman | You know how, when KGB agents are tailing you, all you want to do is roll out of the car while your driver keeps going? Only those agents aren’t dumb: If they suddenly see one fewer head inside the car, they’re gonna know something’s up. Spytechs at the CIA figured that if you brought along something compact yet inflatable, you could quickly blow it up as you exited the vehicle, and nobody would see any difference. It was the early ’80s so, naturally, the researchers thought of sex dolls. More »
Networks
FBI Wiretaps Shut Down: The Feds Weren’t Paying the Bills (and Other Frightening Things)
10:57AM Sean Fallon | Here is a comforting thought for you. Apparently the FBI has routinely failed to pay telecom companies for providing phone and internet lines that they had been using for wiretaps and other super-secret surveillance. This has resulted in at least one company cutting a foreign intelligence wiretap until the bill is paid. More »
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FBI’s $1 Billion Biometric Database Will Help Catch the Bad Guys
4:20PM Haroon Malik | The FBI is planning to spend $US1 billion on the world’s largest biometric database. The database will be used to create a big brother state, in which you will ultimately have little autonomy assist the FBI’s efforts in catching the bad guys. Apparently, compilation of digital images, including mug shots, fingerprints and palm patterns have already begun. More »
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FBI to Fight Zombie Hordes, BBC Says
7:39PM Seamus Byrne | For some reason, when I read “FBI Tries to Fight Zombie Hordes” this morning I really got excited. The idea of an FBI squad hunting smelly, vicious and utterly stupid brain-dead slobs has a certain charm. Sadly, they are not looking for your dorm roommate or my ex-mother-in-law, but for something completely different. More »
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